7027.
Linen, block-printed; ground, white; pattern, crested birds and foliage, just like another piece, No. 8615, in this collection. Flemish, late 14th century. 14 inches by 2-3/4 inches.
7028.
Small Piece of Orphrey; ground, yellow silk stitchery upon canvas, embroidered, within barbed quatrefoils in cords of gold, and upon a gold diapered ground, with the busts of two Evangelists in coloured silks, and the whole bordered by an edging of gold stalks, with trefoils. Italian, the middle of the 15th century. 10 inches by 5-1/2 inches.
The quatrefoils are linked together by a kind of fretty knot, as well
as the lengths in the two narrow edgings on the border by a less intricate
one, all of which looks very like Florentine work. Most likely
this orphrey served for the side of a cope.
7029.
Piece of a Liturgical Cloth, embroidered in white thread, very slightly shaded here and there in crimson silk, upon linen, with a quatrefoil at top enclosing the Annunciation and four angels, one at each corner swinging a thurible, and lower down, with St. Peter and St. Paul, St. James the Less and St. Matthias, St. James the Greater and St. Andrew; amid the leaf-bearing boughs, roving all over the cloth, may be seen an occasional lion's head cabossed and langued gules. German, late 14th century. 2 feet 9-1/2 inches by 1 foot 10-1/2 inches.
This is but a small piece of one of those long coverings or veils for
the lectern, of which such fine examples are in this collection.
The lion's head cabossed would seem to be an armorial ensign of the family to which the lady who worked the cloth belonged, although such
